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The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love.
The Public Record
- Psalm 33:5
March 28, 2012
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Bank of America robbery suspect&apos;s trial begins
A Forsyth man accused
of robbing the Bank
of America in
Forsyth was
expected to stand
trial beginning
Tuesday.
Lashawn
Deangelo Grier was
indicted by a
Monroe County
Grand Jury in
October on charges
of armed robbery and rob-
bery by intimidation for
alleging robbing the Bank
of America on South Lee
Street on Jan. 4,
2011.
Grier, then 20,
was caught
shortly after the
robbery by a
sheriffs deputy
at 75 Lover's
Lane, just a few
blocks from the
GRIER bank. Witnesses
described a black
man in his early 20s wear-
ing a tan hooded sweat-
shirt and black jeans flee-
ing to near the intersec-
tion of Hunter Street and
Lovers Lane.
Dep. Kevin Powell of the
Monroe County Sheriffs
Office reported talking to
two black males in the
front yard of 29 Hunter
Street, including one in a
gray hooded sweatshirt
who appeared to be trying
to hide something in a car.
The other black male was
wearing a black leather
coat and camouflage pants
and wore a surprised look,
said the report.
They both became
extremely nervous upon
being, approached, and
both said they had not
seen anyone fleeing. The
suspect wearing the
leather coat, later identi-
fied as Grier, was continu-
ously putting his hand in
his jacket pocket and kept
'looking at the pathway
behind a house as if he
wanted to run away, said
the report. He became
very inquisitive as to why
they were there, and his
cargo pants pocket had a
large bulge coming from it,
said the report.
Powell patted down Grier
and spotted a bundle of
money sticking out of his
jacket pocke t . Asked what
was in the pocket, he
replied, "Money, I been
saving it," said the report.
Grier was arrested and
the money was identified
as that stolen from Bank
of America.
Criminal jury trials are
scheduled to continue into
next week when Daniel
and Kathy Millican will
each stand trial on charges
which include: three
counts of child molesta-
tion, incest, four counts of
aggravated sexual battery,
three counts of aggravated
sodomy, two counts of first
degree cruelty to children
and sexual battery against
a child under 16.
Man in wheelchair
steals ribeye steaks
from Freshway
A 39-year-old Forsyth
man was cited for shoplift-
ing and ordered not to
return to Freshway
Market after he was
caught stealing ribeye
steaks from the store on
March 17. According to the
incident report, at about
5:48 p.m. on March 17,
Officer Matthew Price of
the Forsyth Police
Department went to
Freshway Market in refer-
ence to a shoplifting in
progress. When Price
arrived, He saw a man in
an electric wheelchair
leaving the parking lot
onto North Lee Street.
Price told the man to
return to Freshway with
him. As soon as the two
got back to the store, the
female manager was
standing out front. Before
anyone else spoke, the
man immediately con-
fessed to shoplifting. He
stated, "I'm sorry. Please
don't send me to jail. I
won't come back to the
store. I got caught this
time." The man then
pulled four ribeye steaks,
valued at about $68, out
from where he had been
sitting on them. The man-
ager told Price that the
man had been "killing
them on ribeyes", and said
she wanted to prosecute.
Price asked the man to
meet him at the Forsyth
Police Department because
his wheelchair would not
fit in the police car. The
man was also on oxygen,
carried a large bag of med-
ication and said he was on
dialysis. The man was not
arrested due to his med-
ical problems.
Puppies stolen
on Ensign Road
An Ensign Road resident
reported that four puppies
were stolen from her yard
on March 18. According to
the incident report, at
about 7:19 p.m., Dep.
Lawson Bittick met with
an Ensign Road woman at
the Monroe County
Sheriffs Office. The
woman said someone had
taken four of the five pup-
pies in her litter sometime
the previous night. She
said the puppies were
taken from the backyard of
her Ensign Road home,
where they had been in a
pin with their mother. She
said someone had opened
the pin and tied the moth-
er to the side, and then
taken the four red-nosed
pit bull terriers, which
were only a few weeks old.
Two of the four puppies
are male, and the other
two are female. Three of
the four are solid white,
and the other one is black
and white. The woman
added the theft had to
have occurred between 11
p.m. on March 17 and 9
a.m. on March 18.
Incidents
What's the hurry, mister?
Forsyth officer Kimberly Barnett gave a ticket to the driver of
a Chevrolet Impala on March 16 as part of the statewide
speed crackdown campaign by the Governor's Office of
Highway Safety. Every Georgia agency with jurisdiction on 1-
75 took part in the initiative. Sgt. Gregg Phillips of the Forsyth
Police Department said the department wrote 36 speeding
citations, all of which were at least 17 mph over the posted
speed limit. (Photo/Richard Dumas)
Man heads south
in quest to find...
Powder Springs?
A 43-year-old black
Powder Springs man was
arrested and charged with
DUI refusal (second
offense) and having an
open container after a traf-
fic stop on 1-75 South on
March 17. According to the
incident report, at about
2:16 a.m., Dep. Kevin
Powell was advised by dis-
patchers of a lookout of a
Chrysler Sebring that was
being driven recklessly..
Powell saw the car stop at
the 1-75 South on ramp at
Johnstonville Road. Powell
saw the male driver stum-
bling around the vehicle.
He met with the driver
and instructed him several
times to step away from
the road because he was
stumbling into it. Powell
als0 immediately smelled
a strong odor of alcohol
coming from the driver,
and his speech was slurred
to the point where it was
not understandable. The
driver told Powell he had
two beers earlier in the
night. Powell asked the
driver where he was com-
ing from, and the driver
responded that he had
been looking for his wife at
Club Primal. He then
added that he was on the
way home to Powder
Springs. Powell informed
the driver that he was
traveling in the wrong
direction, and that he was
about 60 miles south of
Atlanta. The driver
responded, "Are you kid-
ding me?" The whole time
that Powell was speaking
to the driver, he was stum-
bling around, and twice
Powell had to catch him as
he fell toward the first
lane of the interstate. The
driver then failed several
field sobriety tests. He did
not attempt the walk and
turn test because he said
he had a rod and several
pins in his right leg, and
his leg was hurting him.
Cpl. Willie Brown and
Dep. Lawson Bittick
arrived at the scene to
assist. While inventorying
the driver's vehicle, Powell
found a black plastic bag
in the driver's side floor-
board that contained two
empty, cold 16-ounce
Icehouse cans. It also
appeared as though both
sides of the driver's vehicle
appeared to have side-
swiped something.
Ashburn couple
arrested for pot
A 50-year-old black
Ashburn woman and a 42-
year-old black Ashburn man
were each arrested and
charged with possession of
marijuana with intent to
distribute following a traffic
stop on 1-75 South on March
20. According to the incident
report, at about 10:29 a.m.,
Cpl. Jarred Duncan saw a
silver Ford Taurus traveling
on 1-75 South with a broken
taillight and an obscuring
tag frame. Duncan stopped
the car and met with the
female driver, and he could
smell marijuana coming
from within the car. The
driver told Duncan that she
and her male passenger
went to Atlanta to hang out.
The passenger separately
told Duncan that they had
gone to Forest Park to
attend a wedding, but there
was no visible clothing
inside the car. Duncan then
asked the driver about the
marijuana odor, and she
first said she had no idea
what he was talking about.
She later said some friends
were smoking marijuana in
the car on a previous night.
Duncan then searched the
car and found a plastic bag
under the front passenger
seat containing about one
pound of marijuana. Inside
the first plastic bag was a
second plastic bag, which
contained two more clear
plastic bags of marijuana
with about an ounce of mar-
ijuana in each one. The driv-
er told Duncan she didn't
know where the passenger
got the marijuana, but that
it was just for their personal
use. The passenger told
Duncan he wanted to call
his mother. The driver was
also charged with having
broken taillights and an
improper tag.
The following Monroe County residents
have been summoned for jury duty for
Superior Court criminal trials beginning
n April 2. Judge Tommy Wilson will
reside.
1. Terry Jo Abston
2. Beverly E. Alford
3. Lori Ann D. Andrews
4. John M. Austin
5. Richard C. Barfield Sr.
6. Marilyn T. Barkley
7. Carol Ann Perkins Battle
8. Greta Beach
9. Johnny M. Beasley
10. Shirley D. Beasley
11. Adam F. Benfield
12. Lawson Cary Bittick
13. Dorothy L. Brantley
14. Douglas T. Brown
15. Debra A. Bruner-Smith
16. Willie Bryant
17. George L. Buckner
18. Kristen Schlottman Burkhalter
19. Dianne Jenkins Campbell
20. Mary E. Cole
21. Mary M. Colvin
22 Emily H. Conger
23. James Carter Conner
24. Terri L. Couey
25. Charles E. Cowart
26. Kenneth W. Crook
27. Sue N. Daniel
28. Robert J. Davis
29. Michael A. Dillon Sr.
30. Pamela N. Drew
31. Charles E. Dumas
32. R. L. (Chip) Dunn III
33. William H. Ellis
34. Vickie B. Ellison
35. Georgia B. Evans
36. Hugh R. Fannin
37. Eris McPherson Farmer
38. John E. Fields
Jury List
39. Robert W. Fort Jr.
40. Clarence Steve Gordon
41. Mary F. Gore
42. Christina U. Green
43. David Keith Green
44. Glenn Gregg Jr.
45. Gary E. Ham
46. Jimmy Hansford
47. Ronald E. Hathaway
48. Michelle J. Head
49. Claude B. Hickman
50. David L. Hicks
51. John Derrick Holland
52. Juanita B. Ivey
53. Charles Ray Jackson
54. Lee Arthur Jackson
55. Michelle T. Jackson
56. Rita Arlene Faulkner James
57. Merrie J. Johnson
58. Glen Johnny Jones
59. Peggy Allen Kirkland
60. Deborah Kovalick-Leggett
61. Susan Alice Landrum
62. Rhonda P. Lowery
63. Charles Stuart Matich Sr.
64. Andrew L. McDowell
65. Hollis Middleton Jr.
66. Dreika Doayel Z. Moore
67. Marlo Tamicia Moran
68. Erica R. Moreland
69. Randy L. Myrick
70. Ernestine B. Ogletree
71. Nell Miller Onstott
72. Parsottam V. Patel
73. Anne S. Perry
74. Brenda Dianne Peters
75. Wanda Wood Peters
76. Roger Powell
77. Blanche S. Presley
78. Kimberly T. Pruitt
79. David Ricky Queen
80. Christopher Michael Rawls
81. Stacey Redding
82. Benjamin W. Reeves
83. Aaron Cornelious Rutherford
84. Debra Sanders Smith
85. Sheron H. Smith
86. Timothy O. Smith
87. D'Tra Stephens
88. Mary Clements Stroupe
89. Kerri Ham Swearingen
90. Dominque W. Taylor
91. Clarence Toles
92. Veronica Y. Truan
93. Donald Jeffrey Tullius
94. Eddie E. Waddle
95. Jimmy W. Waldrep
96. George Anthony Walker
97. Nancy M. Walthall
98. Ronnie Keith Watson
99. Katherine Chappell White
100. Larry Robin Whitehead
The following arrests were report-
,d by the Monroe County Sheriff's
Department March 15-22. The
rrest means someone has been
:harged with a crime, but the law
:onsiders them innocent until
roven guilty.
March 15
• Charles Laskey, 45, Forest
Park, driving while license sus-
pended/revoked
• Dwayne Mahabeer, 31,
3ecatur, speeding, driving while
icense suspended/revoked
• Hans Materne, 33, Jackson,
irugs not in original container
• Erica Dawn Maupin, 25,
?orsyth, first degree forgery
• Trey Winter, 25, Georgetown,
kC., hold for other agency, driv-
ng while license
mspended/revoked
March 16
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• Tiana Bradshaw, 22,
Covington, driving while license
suspended/revoked, speeding
• Saul Hayes, 21, Stockbridge,
open container violation, posses-
sion of marijuana
• Kayla Jarrell, 21, Chamblee,
possession of marijuana
• Brandon Johnson, 24,
Forsyth, battery (family violence),
third degree cruelty to children
• Brandon Kirkland, 19,
Stockbridge, possession of mari-
juana
• Darice Liyingston, 28, East
Point, driving while license sus-
pended/revoked, sPeeding
• William Moton, 62, Macon,
driving while license
suspended/revoked
• Crystal Pattersonl 31,
Riverdale, GCC (Probate)
• Lehanna Rodriquez, 25,
Chamblee, possession of marijua-
Arrests
na, too fast for conditions
• Bobby D. Willis, 50, Macon,
driving while license
suspended/revoked
March 17
• Lynel Davis, 43, Powder
Springs, DUI, open container
• Jonathan Dyer, 26, Forsyth,
GCC (city)
• Jarvis Jarmine Hansford, 41,
Forsyth, Superior Court bench
warrant, obstruction, simple bat-
tery, terroristic threats
• Scott McBride, 3'3,
Cincinnati, driving while license
suspended/revoked
• Sean McCranie, 26, Forsyth,
burglary, theft by taking, posses-
sion of tools for commission of a
crime
• Brielle Thompson, 19,
Milton, suspended registration,
speeding
• Konterris Trevor Walker, 25, 4
Forsyth, DUI, improper turn
• Brittney Wildermuth, 26,
Forsyth, burglary, possession of
tools for commission of a crime,
theft by taking
March 18
• Moniqua McDougal, 20,
Forsyth, driving without license
March 19
• Thomas Driggers, 35, Fort
Valley, driving while license sus-
pended/revoked
• Chris Johnson, 22,
Greenwood, possession of mari-
juana
• Dylan Moore, 22, Greenwood,
. Ind., possession of marijuana,
window tint violation
• Stacey Sinkfield, 45, Macon,
GCC (Probate)
• Rabun Thigpen, 31, Fort
Valley, failure to appear in court
March 20
• Evelyn Thomas Dawson, 50,
possession of marijuana, tail-
lights, improper tag display
• Reginald Graddie, 42,
Ashburn, possession of marijuana
with intent to distribute
• Ahmed Hassan, 29,
Bradenton, Fla., drugs not in
original container, possession of
drugs, dangerous drugs
• Jenard Icon, 21,
Lawrenceville, driving without
license
• Brittafiy Russell, 21,
Culloden, taillights, driving while
license suspended/revoked
March 21
• Carlos Aaron Bennett, 35,
Forsyth, GCC (city)
• Nathan Crews, 41, Waycross,
driving while license
suspended/revoked
• Kevin Morris Daniel, 42,
Macon, possession of marijuana
• Jimmy Lee High, 57,
Forsyth, disorderly conduct, driv-
ing while license
suspended/revoked
• Morickus Vashun Holder, 29,
Forsyth, simple battery
• Benjamin Lwis Talmadge,
50, Barnesville, failure to stop for
stop sign, driving while license
suspended/revoked, DUI
March 22
• Cassie Lynn Franklin, 30,
Barnesville, affray
• Anthony Piatt, 17, Forsyth,
disorderly conduct
• Christina Rae Tetlow, 26,
Jackson, aggravated assault,
affray
• Brian Williams, 31, Griffin,
windshieldrequirement, failure
to stop for stop sign, obstruction,
failure to obey traffic devices or
police, littering highway